BOOK REVIEW

"A secular, Zionist version of the Thriller video, but Michael Jackson's original is catchier and less moribund."

Israel's quirkiest visionaries, present (Shimon Peres) and past (Theodor Herzl), tour the country in a book that might possibly be appropriate for children, but not for grown-ups.
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"An elegant tour de force that combines neuropsychology with liberal references to Shakespeare and Homer."

Edelman (Psychology/Cornell Univ.; Computing the Mind: How the Mind Really Works, 2008, etc.) asks readers to discard the "familiar ‘computer metaphor' that halfheartedly likens the brain to a computer," and accept his argument that "the mind is computational in the literal sense."
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